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Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication (SML2246)

Staff

Professor Sonia Cunico - Convenor

Credit Value

15

ECTS Value

7.5

NQF Level

5

Pre-requisites

Co-requisites

Duration of Module

Term 2: 11 weeks;

Module aims

In a multilingual and multicultural world, the ability to understand the nature of culture/s and the ability to respond appropriately to unfamiliar cultural practices is essential. This module aims to develop a greater sensitivity to cultural and linguistic diversity through engagement with critical concepts such as culture, identity, othering, mis/communication in a range of different contexts and through different media. The module adopts an interdisciplinary approach and aims to develop a familiarity with different analytical tools and approaches, and the ability to design and develop an individual research project.

ILO: Module-specific skills

1. Demonstrate understanding of the key theoretical notions and concepts in Intercultural Communication Theory as well as their relevance in multilingual and multicultural contexts.

2. Demonstrate the development of your Intercultural Competence through the analysis of data which illustrate instances of cultural diversity and/or mis/understanding.

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

3. Recognise, describe, and evaluate, under guidance from the module tutor/s, a variety of critical responses to case studies and sources.

4. Demonstrate the development of ethnographic skills within a structured framework.

5. Recognise and understand the role of language/s as a key locus of personal and sociocultural identity as well as of Intercultural mis/understanding.

6. Demonstrate familiarity and ability to draw on a range of research literature

7. Demonstrate ability to engage with a variety of research approaches, including ethnography of communication, contrastive pragmatics, and discourse analysis.

ILO: Personal and key skills

8. Develop intercultural awareness and competence based on engagement with a variety of readings and case studies

9. Undertake an independent research project, which involves data collection and use of appropriate analytical frameworks.

Syllabus plan

What is Communication? Models of communication, identity, and ‘othering’

Context and Culture – The ethnography of communication

Language in Interaction: The structuring of talk as a cultural phenomenon

Language in Interaction: How do I say what I mean? And Do I really mean what I say?

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics or When people mean different things by what they say

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Original form of assessment

Form of re-assessment

ILOs re-assessed

Timescale for re-assessment

Project

Project

1-9

Referral/deferral period

Re-assessment notes

Successful referred students will receive the maximum achievable mark of 40 for their essay. Successful deferred students will have their re-assessment treated as a first attempt, thus the full range of marks will be available.